Drapery-hook.



PATENTED JUNE-'28, 1904.

L. NACHMANN. DRAPERY HOOK.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 5, 1903'.

N0 MODEL.

WI TNE SSE S.

, U IT STATES Patented June 28, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS NAOHMANN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

. DRAPIERYfiHOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 763,780, dated June as,1904.

Application filed October 5, 1903.

.To all whone it may concern/s Be it knownthatI, LOUIS NACHMANN, acitizen of the United States,.and a resident of the city of New York,borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State ofNew York, haveinvented new. and useful Improvements in Drapery-Hooks, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

. My invention relates to improvements in hooks employed for connectinga curtain, portiere, or the like to rings on a curtain-pole; and theobject thatI have in view is the provision of. an improved articleadapted to sustain the upperedge portion of a curtain above or alongsideof the curtain-pole,-whereby a plurality of the hooks serve to supportthe curtain or portiere in away to conceal the pole and the ringswithout resorting to stiffenv ing media for holdingthe curtain.

Further objects and advantagesof the inventionwill-appear in the courseof the subjoined description, and the actual scope thereof will bedefined by the annexed: claims.

Reference is to be'had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part-ofthisspecification, in whichsimilar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts inall the figures.

- Figure 1 is.arview',-partly in side elevation, illustrating the.application of a pluralityof drapery-hooks constructedinaccordance withmy invention to aportion of a-curtainor pore tiere, the latterbeingpartly broken away to' show one of the drapery-hooks in elevation. Fig.2 is a vertical cross-section on the plane of the dotted line 2 20f Fig.1 looking in the direction of the arrow, and Fig. 3 is a detailperspective View of the drapery-hook removed from the curtain and thepole.

A designates an ordinary curtain-pole adapted to receive curtain-ringsB, each of which is provided with an eye 6. It is common in the art tosuspend curtains or portieres C from the series of rings B and to employa lining C on one side of the curtain, substantially as indicated byFigs. *1 and 2. The ordinary curtain-hooks are usually attached to thecurtain by sewing them thereto, or each hook is provided with asafety-pin which is fastened to the curtain and is hooked into the eyeof the curtain-ring; but this makes it necessary Serial No. 175,724. (Nomodel.)

to employ means for draping the upperpart of-the curtain in a way toconceal the rings and the pole.

According to my invention I provide a drapery-hook, which is shown bythe several figures of the drawings, said hook serving as ameansfo'rconnecting the curtain to the rings and as the means for draping theupper part of the curtain in a way to dispense with the stifieningmaterial.

The curtain hook of my invention consists of a shank 5, having an eye 6at one end and bent or doubled upon itself to provide the hook 7 Inconnection with the hook made as shown by the drawings I employ draperymembers 8 9, which extend from opposite sides of the hook and arecoupled or united thereto by any suitable means. The drapery members 8 9are shown by the drawings as being bent from, a single piece of wire,which isdoubled upon itself to form an eye or loop 10, after which thestrands of the wire are made to diverge laterally, as indicated by Figs.1 and 3, so as to produce the lower drapery member. 9. The shank 5 ofthe hook proper isfitted between the strands of the member 9 so astobring the eye 6 within the opening or space which is produced in thelower drapery member 9, and the strands of this member 9 converge towardthe shank 5 in order that a band or clasp 11 may be utilized as a meansfor holding the drapery members and the hook in rigid relation. Thestrands of wire diverge above the coupling-band 11, so as to form theupper drapery member 8, and the arms of this member are doubled orlooped in opposite directions to form eyes 12 at the upper extremity ofthe drapery-hook. The arms of the upper drapery member lie at an angleto the plane of the hook 5, and the lower drapery member 9 is alsodisposed at an angle to the hook and inclined or curved oppositely tothe upper drapery member 8, as indicated more clearly by Fig. 2. Thehook proper of the drapery device occupies an intermediate posi tionbetween the upper and lower drapery members 8 9, and the arm f this hookextends beyond one side of both of the drapery members at the middle ofthe drapery device.

The lining C is usually attached to the upper edge portion of thecurtain C, which is doubled or folded upon itself, as at 0. (See Figs. 1and 2.) In using my improved device the arm 7 of the hook is thrustthrough the lining C of the curtain and the member 8 of the device isfitted between the looped edge 0 and the lining O on one side and thecurtain C on the other side. The curtain or the lining may, if desired,be fastened to the band 11, the eye 6 of the hook, and the eye 10 of thedrapery memberas, for example, by the stitches 13, (shown by Fig. 2 ofthe drawings;) but the method of uniting the drapery device to thecurtain or its lining may be modified or changed within wide limits. Thearm 7 of the hook is adapted to be passed through the eye 6 of thecurtain-ring, and the drapery device is thus suspended from the ring, soas to support the curtain and its lining in a way to conceal the ringand the pole, as shown by the drawings.

It will be seen that the upstanding member 8 ofthe drapery device servesto support the upper edge portion of the curtain in front of the poleand the rings, so as to dispense with any other supporting'device and toovercome the necessity of draping the upper edge of the curtain over thepole and the rings, while the lower member 9 of the drapery device isconcealed entirely by the curtain and the lining thereof.

As shown in Fig. 2, the forked upstanding member of the drapery deviceis slightly curved and straddles the curtain-pole ring, and with thisconstruction and arrangement the ring can be pushed or pulled along thepole by grasping and pulling on the lower edge of the curtain.

The lower drapery member 9 projects below the hooks and serves as abrace or stay in making the entire device assume the proper verticalposition.

Of course it will be understood that any suitable number of my draperydevices may be used in connection with the curtain and a correspondingnumber of rings. The improved article is simple in construction, cheapof manufacture, and it operates efficiently in suspending a curtain andin supporting the upper edge thereof in a way to conceal the pole andrings from view.

Having thus described my invention, Iclaim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. A curtain drapery device consisting of a hook,provided with a shank having an attaching eye or loop by which it may beattached to a curtain, an upper drapery member extending upwardly fromsaid hook and a lower drapery member extending downwardly below the freeend of the hook, the drapery members being located in a plane at oneside of the hook.

2. The combination with a curtain having a looped edge, and a ring, of ahook engaging with said ring and provided with a shank hav- 5 ing aneye, a drapery member connected with the shank of the hook and extendingupwardly into the looped edge of the curtain, and asecond drapery memberextending downwardly below the hook, the eye on the shank of the hookextending into an opening between the sides of the lower drapery member.

3. A curtain drapery device comprising arms connected with each other atone end, the arms diverging laterally from the point of connection for aportion of their length to produce a lower drapery member, a hook havinga shank engaged at opposite sides by said arms, the arms converging atthis point toward the shank of the hook, and means for holding the shankof the hook and the said arms in rigid relation, the arms diverging fromeach other and extending upwardly in a curved line beyond the point ofengagementwith the shank of the hook to form an upper drapery member.

A. A drapery device, comprising a hook having a shank provided at oneend with an eye, and upper and lower drapery members formed from asingle piece of wire bent upon itself and provided with an eye or loopat the bend or lower end, the free or upper ends of the wire terminatingin eyes, the said shank of the hook extending between the strands of thewire and secured thereto, and occupying an intermediate position betweenthe said upper and lower drapery members, and the eye on the end of theshank of the hook extending within an opening or space between thestrands of the lower drapery member. 5. A curtain drapery device,comprising a hook adapted for engagement with a curtainpole ring andprovided with a shank, a curved drapery member extending upwardly fromthe hook and adapted to fit within a looped edge of a curtain, and alower drapery member extending vertically downward to a point below thefree end of the hook, the drapery members being integrally connectedwith each other and having converging side portions at their junctionengaging the shank of the hook and secured thereto. 1

6. A curtain drapery device comprising a hook, a curtain-pole ring, anda forked drapery member adapted to straddle the curtainpole ring andserving as a means for pushing or pulling the ring along the pole, asset forth.

7. The combination with a curtain, a curtain-pole, and a curtain-polering provided with an eye, of adrapery device consisting of a hookadapted to engage the eye on the curtain-pole ring, and a forked draperymember extending in a curved line upward from the hook and straddlingthe curtain-pole ring, the said forked drapery member serving as a meansfor pushing or pulling the ring along the pole, as set forth.

8. A curtain drapery device consisting of a curtain-pole ring, a hook, aforked drapery member extending upwardly from the hook and straddlingthe curtain-pole ring, and a downwardly-extending drapery memberprojecting below the hook and serving as a brace or stay to maintain thedevice in vertical position, as set forth.

9. The combination with a curtain having a looped edge, the curtainbeing provided with a lining, a curtain-pole, and a ring, of a draperydevice comprising a hook, an upwardlyextending forked drapery memberstraddling the curtain-pole ring and extending upwardly into the loop ofthe curtain and a I downwardly-extending drapery member projecting belowthe hook and serving as a brace to maintain the device in verticalposition, the forked drapery member and the brace member 5 extendingbetween the lining on one side and the curtain on the other side andfastened in position, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two sub- 20 scribing witnesses.

' LOUIS NACHMANN.

Witnesses:

S. WEINBERG, SIDNEY H. WEINBERG.

